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Speaker 2: Let us know what you think about what's happening.
Speaker 3: And today it's been all about these protests that are
Speaker 3: going on downtown near the Federal building Alameda. We're the
Speaker 3: one on one Alameda right there if you're unfamiliar to
Speaker 3: near a Union station. So right the downtown, just a
Speaker 3: couple of blocks from City Hall, which is where there
Speaker 3: was another protest which later merged with that one. So
Speaker 3: your thoughts hit us up at the talk back.
Speaker 4: Hey, I was just driving past downtown Los Angeles and
Speaker 4: I saw the helicopters and all of that, and you
Speaker 4: can actually see the tear gas rising from in between
Speaker 4: the buildings. It looks crazy between that and the helicopters,
Speaker 4: you know, spinning around the town. I mean, it's just
Speaker 4: it's insane.
Speaker 2: It is insane. Yeah, I'll give you that.
Speaker 5: Yup.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the report.
Speaker 3: Know how you drove pass downtown though there's nothing downtown moving.
Speaker 2: It's a.
Speaker 3: It's a it's a mess. If you can avoid going
Speaker 3: to the entire downtown area.
Speaker 1: Do it.
Speaker 3: One of ones just shut right down. In fact, one
Speaker 3: of the ones you heard Lucy giving us a traffic update.
Speaker 3: One on one's pretty well closed. Between what the seven
Speaker 3: ten and and the one ten just I mean, or
Speaker 3: at least one on one. There's the whole thing is
Speaker 3: a mess. Look at the maps. This is the whole
Speaker 3: Thing's a mess. S everything's a mess.
Speaker 1: Just don't do it.
Speaker 2: Don't even drive anywhere today.
Speaker 3: Just stay home, pour yourself a nice Sunday cocktail, take
Speaker 3: an extra communion, stay out of the car.
Speaker 2: Hi.
Speaker 6: I believe that the National Guard being activated is a
Speaker 6: good thing because if it hadn't been done, Newsom and
Speaker 6: Bass would have allowed our police force to sit back
Speaker 6: and watch things happen so they could then say, oh,
Speaker 6: look what happened because of Trump. Now they are embarrassed
Speaker 6: into showing that they have the ability to maintain safety
Speaker 6: on the streets, which as we know previously, they never
Speaker 6: do and it ends up in rioting and looting.
Speaker 2: All right, you know one of the things too. In fact,
Speaker 2: it was it was interesting.
Speaker 3: I was reading about the the stuff yesterday in Paramount
Speaker 3: and Channel seven had this. They were talking about what
Speaker 3: led to the events where we are today despite the
Speaker 3: national picture of the protests were combined to confined to
Speaker 3: a very small area of a couple of blocks in
Speaker 3: Paramount and downtown LA, most of the cities operating as
Speaker 3: per normal with no signs of unrest, which which is true.
Speaker 3: I mean, for Pete's sake, we've been covering these protests there.
Speaker 3: They're downtown a couple of blocks, we got what ten
Speaker 3: million people and in the metro area eleven million people,
Speaker 3: And I mean were talking about a couple of thousands,
Speaker 3: So I mean, when you put things in perspective, not
Speaker 3: a lot, however, And I think it's also fair to
Speaker 3: say that most days we don't have any massive protests
Speaker 3: going on. We don't don't have any thousand people protesting
Speaker 3: or clashing with any guards. So it is it is
Speaker 3: out of the ordinary, to be sure. All Right, more
Speaker 3: from the talk back, and again, if you're on the
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Speaker 3: us know.
Speaker 2: What you think.
Speaker 7: There you go, Karen Bass and her presser.
Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of blame.
Speaker 7: Blaming the police, blaming Trump, blaming law enforcement did when
Speaker 7: it's all the agitators and the protesters, which is the problem.
Speaker 7: It's not law enforcement. But Karen Bass doesn't understand that.
Speaker 7: She wants to coddle to the immigrants and the illegal
Speaker 7: aliens and everybody else like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you had me when you said that she
Speaker 3: was blaming the administration. She was blaming the presence of
Speaker 3: law enforcement.
Speaker 2: But to say that.
Speaker 3: Everything is all agitators, I mean, it's kind of like
Speaker 3: I got a little brother, right, and the more I
Speaker 3: tried to tell my little brother to knock it off,
Speaker 3: the more he would the more he got what he
Speaker 3: wanted out of me, right, Which is why my parents
Speaker 3: always said ignore him, he'll go away. Now, as you
Speaker 3: and I both know, if you ignore the agitators, they're
Speaker 3: really going to want to get your attention. They they
Speaker 3: may start doing some more nonsense and escalating things totally
Speaker 3: could happen. I'm not going to doubt that that absolutely
Speaker 3: could happen. We have seen it happen before. You're right,
Speaker 3: But I also know that the more heavy handed I
Speaker 3: got with my little brother, the more it made him
Speaker 3: want to lash out and be and start biting and
Speaker 3: kicking me. So this is that delicate balance. And incidentally,
Speaker 3: I know that this falls right now in party lines
Speaker 3: where you go, well, listen, you know the Republicans, they're
Speaker 3: calling for law and order, and they want the heavy
Speaker 3: hand of the law so that we can stop these agitators.
Speaker 3: And then you know January sixth, the few years back,
Speaker 3: and they go, oh, can you believe that those the
Speaker 3: heavy hand of the law was coming in and doing
Speaker 3: that to those people who are just peaceful tourists walking
Speaker 3: through the Capitol building? How dare they do such a thing.
Speaker 3: So we tend to vary our opinion on who's at
Speaker 3: fault based on which side.
Speaker 2: Of the argument we're on.
Speaker 3: That time around right when it's Ruby Ridge, we go,
Speaker 3: my god, can you believe the heavy hand of government?
Speaker 2: How dare they do such a thing?
Speaker 3: And then we have a time like this, we go, oh,
Speaker 3: my goodness, can you believe these agitators?
Speaker 2: The law enforcement's always right?
Speaker 3: So I think we always have to be careful about
Speaker 3: who's in charge and is there a better way to
Speaker 3: do things? Oftentimes I think we just kind of fall
Speaker 3: back to, uh, you know, might equals right, No, that's
Speaker 3: the case, But also, you know, burning your town down
Speaker 3: as we saw yesterday the protests that would lead into looting.
Speaker 2: The hell's out about I ain't doing any good either.
Speaker 8: Bass is speaking on TV about the protests right now. Yeah,
Speaker 8: you know, where the hell is the governor? He should
Speaker 8: be down here front and center. Newsom and Bass. They
Speaker 8: should put a damn scissor lift right across the one
Speaker 8: on one freeway where all the protests are taken, and
Speaker 8: they should get up there and speak directly to the protesters,
Speaker 8: and then we'll see what really happens.
Speaker 2: I'll bitch you.
Speaker 8: The protesters probably rock the scissor lift until it falls over.
Speaker 2: Noah, you might be right.
Speaker 3: And actually, to be honest, my friend, I thought the
Speaker 3: same thing. Where are they They should be on the scene.
Speaker 3: I agree with you on that one, one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: Did just see something funny the monitor in the studio here.
Speaker 2: It looks as.
Speaker 3: Though a number of people who wanted to go down there,
Speaker 3: and I don't know if they wanted to be a
Speaker 3: part of the protest or they just wanted to see
Speaker 3: what we witnessed. The protests that we're going on no idea,
Speaker 3: because we just we saw the crowds grow throughout the afternoon,
Speaker 3: but not necessarily participating in the protests themselves. In many
Speaker 3: cases they were watching from the overpasses and such. But
Speaker 3: it looks like a nawful lot of people thought, I'm
Speaker 3: going to take a Weaimo down there. So then the
Speaker 3: Weaimo goes down there, and you know, the Weymo's not
Speaker 3: going to drive over anybody. The weymos is just gonna
Speaker 3: stop until people get out of the way. And so
Speaker 3: what happened. It looks like people were then burning the
Speaker 3: self driving taxis and then spray painting all of the
Speaker 3: different weymos. This may be the most expensive day in
Speaker 3: Weimo history. Take a look at all the different Jaguars
Speaker 3: that have been completely messed up. Wonder if Wemo has
Speaker 3: Riot insurance. H I guess people just don't care if
Speaker 3: it's not their car, right, I'm gonna take a Waimo
Speaker 3: down there. I drive my own car down Wait, kidding,
Speaker 3: parking is probably a real pain. Yeah, I get it,
Speaker 3: you get it. I'm gonna take that Weimo. All right,
Speaker 3: more of your thoughts, your feedback in just a few moments.
Speaker 3: Always happy to have the conversation. Quite frankly, I love
Speaker 3: talking to you guys. You know I don't always agree,
Speaker 3: but I love the convo. Oh real quick too, the
Speaker 3: borders are. Tom Holman is going to be on with
Speaker 3: John Cobbolt tomorrow one o'clock. So we're paying real close
Speaker 3: attention to what the administration is saying about what's happening
Speaker 3: in Los Angeles. So Tom Holman is gonna be on
Speaker 3: with Cobolt. That that's a big get. Good get to
Speaker 3: the producer on that one. Wow, where's my.
Speaker 2: Producer with the big gets? See how it is? You're right?
Speaker 3: More thrashing of producer Kayla. Next, Chris Merril KFI AM
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Speaker 2: And many of you.
Speaker 3: Heard Karen Bass speaking at the top of the hour
Speaker 3: or five o'clock and had thoughts.
Speaker 8: So the politicians here in LA say that Trump has
Speaker 8: done nothing but create chaos in the city of Los
Speaker 8: Angeles during these protests. Well, look up chaos and the
Speaker 8: dictionary people, you'll what you'll see is a picture of
Speaker 8: Bass and a picture of Newsome side by side.
Speaker 2: That's chaos.
Speaker 3: All right, we've just learned that photographs are chaos.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. All right, hang on, wrong one,
Speaker 2: I go to it. All right.
Speaker 9: I just heard Karen Bass encouraging these protesters to continue
Speaker 9: to express themselves in a peaceful manner, knowing that nothing's
Speaker 9: going to be peaceful moving forward. This is outrageous. First
Speaker 9: she allows this massive fire, which it was all negligence,
Speaker 9: and now she's encouraging this massive protest that could go
Speaker 9: extremely violent. It's stupid.
Speaker 3: It is stupid. And let me make this point too.
Speaker 3: I wholly agree with you. She should not have encouraged
Speaker 3: them to continue protesting. I mean she said, keep expressing
Speaker 3: your anger and your outrage, but do it peacefully. There
Speaker 3: was a time, if you'll remember January sixth, that there
Speaker 3: was an outcry that Trump wasn't taking action and telling
Speaker 3: the protesters to go home. Remember they were like, why
Speaker 3: is he not making a statement, Why is he not
Speaker 3: going on Twitter and telling them to knock it off
Speaker 3: and go home? Why is he not doing that? And
Speaker 3: now you've got Karen Bass, who's got a situation where
Speaker 3: you've got protesters who are lining the streets, and she's saying,
Speaker 3: keep expressing.
Speaker 2: Your anger and your outrage, but just do it peacefully.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no.
Speaker 3: You don't get it both ways. You don't get it
Speaker 3: both ways. But likewise, remember you don't get it both ways.
Speaker 3: So if you're somebody who goes.
Speaker 2: So well, Trump did the right thing by not telling
Speaker 2: them to go home. No no no, no no no no no.
Speaker 3: I agree with you. Bass should be telling people, let's
Speaker 3: wrap it up. Let's wrap it up for the night.
Speaker 3: Everybody go home, Let's have a safe evening. None of
Speaker 3: this stuff. You know, protesting is your your your your right,
Speaker 3: so your First Amendment right, it is protected. But let's
Speaker 3: be smart and let's wrap it up for today. One
Speaker 3: hundred percent agree with you. But if you were making
Speaker 3: excuses for Trump, then why are you disagreeing with Bass now?
Speaker 3: And if you were condemning Trump, then why would you
Speaker 3: be excusing Bass now. I condemned Trump for January sixth
Speaker 3: and not taking more action at the time, I'm condemning
Speaker 3: Bass for not doing more today. Right, That's called logical consistency.
Speaker 3: We're lacking that with a politicians. It's kind of sad.
Speaker 3: It makes my brain hurt just a little bit. Uh,
Speaker 3: you guys are fantastic of more of your talkbacks. I
Speaker 3: want to cover those in.
Speaker 2: In the next segment as well.
Speaker 3: Just looking at everything else that's going on here, I
Speaker 3: had I had an entire program schedule today and then
Speaker 3: people got wacky. Honest to god, the whole thing was
Speaker 3: like the whole show. Cale can tell you she's got
Speaker 3: access to my show Rundown. I had the most I
Speaker 3: had the most beautiful show, probably the best show anyone's
Speaker 3: ever heard. Many Penny people are saying, we're just gonna
Speaker 3: be the best show, and then it just got got
Speaker 3: trashed because of h the Shenanigans Downtown.
Speaker 10: You did plan an amazing show.
Speaker 11: It was going to be it was going to be
Speaker 11: a really fun I mean, it is still an informative
Speaker 11: Sunday in educational Sunday, but the fun just isn't there
Speaker 11: the one that you had planned.
Speaker 10: So yeah, that's unfortunate.
Speaker 2: It is unfortunate. You're right.
Speaker 3: I feel like, uh, I feel like the people have deprived.
Speaker 3: Have you seen did you see the photos of these
Speaker 3: weymos the caught fire?
Speaker 10: No? I didn't know waymos were catching fire?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's like five of them, uh, and
Speaker 3: they're on one of the surface streets.
Speaker 2: I can't tell which one.
Speaker 3: There's five waymos that I'm assuming people took them downtown
Speaker 3: because they wanted to be a part of the protest
Speaker 3: or they wanted to see what was going on. And
Speaker 3: then the waymos are just basically stopped because you know,
Speaker 3: they don't drive over people. So all you have to
Speaker 3: do to stop a weymos get in front of it.
Speaker 3: So somebody surrounds a waymo and that it just it freezes.
Speaker 3: And then I think it when I'm guessing that it
Speaker 3: like locked up, you know, with the security locks, and
Speaker 3: then people just started breaking the windows and they started
Speaker 3: writing graffiti all over the weimos.
Speaker 2: Jeez, Lucy, can you see these things? Have you seen this?
Speaker 12: I can, yes, five of them, and one of them
Speaker 12: is on fire. And what about the battery in that weymo?
Speaker 12: But it's not dangerous?
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, So I did a modicum of research on this,
Speaker 3: and there's one vehicle, one of these weaymos is completely
Speaker 3: there was a little explosion right there. One of these
Speaker 3: vehicles is completely engulfed in flames. It is burning hot.
Speaker 3: I mean, you can actually see it is hot. If
Speaker 3: you are anywhere near downtown and you see black smoke
Speaker 3: in the air that's coming off of this car. Now,
Speaker 3: I don't believe the battery is putting out the black smoke.
Speaker 3: I think the black smoke is coming from the upholstery
Speaker 3: or the dash or some sort of a petroleum based
Speaker 3: uh you know product inside.
Speaker 2: But you are right.
Speaker 3: When it hits that battery, these things are almost impossible
Speaker 3: to put out. And how are they gonna get a
Speaker 3: fire truck down there when the people are blocking the.
Speaker 12: Streets exactly and it looks like they're trying to set
Speaker 12: upon another one as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because they broke the back windows out of all
Speaker 3: of them. They keep throwing they keep throwing incendiary devices in.
Speaker 12: There, right Google, It takes some hours. It takes emergency
Speaker 12: cruise hours to clear lithian ion batteries. Yes, you know,
Speaker 12: it really does. It's a real problem.
Speaker 3: That So I was worried about explosion and this again
Speaker 3: with some of my resent Oh that is the most
Speaker 3: la thing ever. There's a guy breaking the window and
Speaker 3: vandalizing it with escape. Okay, that is that is Los
Speaker 3: Angeles right there. That is just in a nutshell. So
Speaker 3: I thought, oh my goodness, don't these things explode? And
Speaker 3: the answer is probably not. Uh, there is a slight
Speaker 3: chance of explosion, but that usually happens in enclosed spaces
Speaker 3: or underground garages, like in a garage or an underground
Speaker 3: parking area where the vapors can't escape. But as far
Speaker 3: as actual explosions go, probably not going to explode, but
Speaker 3: they're not gonna be able to come in here and
Speaker 3: put it out with water. Oh now, skateboard dude is
Speaker 3: on top of the weimo and he's waking that piece
Speaker 3: off the top. Okay, you know how the weimo has
Speaker 3: the I don't know, like a radar on top that
Speaker 3: just spins around. So he just he broke that, and well,
Speaker 3: good now you've done that, Thank goodness.
Speaker 12: But this speaks to like other protests, you know, the
Speaker 12: other other feelings that people have about technology. This is
Speaker 12: about something else. That's a nice try, Lucia, I'm not
Speaker 12: buying vandalism.
Speaker 2: This is sheer vandalism.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't think these people are protesting because they they're
Speaker 3: upset about technology. This isn't someone that goes, hey, I
Speaker 3: stealing my job, right, No, this is just people wanting
Speaker 3: to be hoodlums.
Speaker 2: That's all this is right.
Speaker 12: Oh, there was an explosion. Something just exploded coming out
Speaker 12: of the one that's fully engulfed. Yeah yeah, all.
Speaker 2: Right, well maybe it'll explode on the skateboard guy.
Speaker 12: Well he walks away. He's out of the shop now.
Speaker 12: Oh okay, Yeah, he's done his damage and now he's like,
Speaker 12: bye bye everyone.
Speaker 3: I gotta get to the skate park. Oh my bros
Speaker 3: are there. Yeah, we're gonna talk about why girls don't.
Speaker 10: Like us, Christopher, what.
Speaker 2: You know what? Right? All right? Lucy Kayle is mad
Speaker 2: at me.
Speaker 3: She says, I got to go to a news so
Speaker 3: that we can get an actual report for you.
Speaker 2: So all right, very good.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, we'll continue full coverage of the riots and
Speaker 3: shirtless weird skateboard guy vandalizing.
Speaker 2: Waym's the most la thing ever. That is next.
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Speaker 2: Roll.
Speaker 3: Is this legit? This tweet from the FBI? I think
Speaker 3: it is, yes, for no reason not to right. FBI
Speaker 3: seeking information about a man who assaulted a federal officer
Speaker 3: and caused damage to government property in Los Angeles this weekend.
Speaker 3: A reward of up to fifty thousand dollars offered for
Speaker 3: information leading to his identification, arrest, and conviction. This dude
Speaker 3: from Paramount, from the Paramount protest and he was wearing
Speaker 3: a I mean, he's wearing a baseball jersey. They had
Speaker 3: to be able to track that guy down, right. Just
Speaker 3: go to the ballpark on Sunday and see who the
Speaker 3: drunk guy is wearing that baseball jersey.
Speaker 2: That's your guy, all right.
Speaker 3: The FBI Los Angeles Twitter page has got all the
Speaker 3: information on it.
Speaker 2: Just FYI on that. What a wild day.
Speaker 3: Continue to see the smoke rising from downtown. That smoke
Speaker 3: is coming from that waymo, that the protesters lit on fire.
Speaker 3: As now we've just gone from a protest skirmishes into
Speaker 3: straight up vandalism and oh two waymos, it looks like
Speaker 3: I were on fire. Now they got another way to
Speaker 3: start burning. So let ago vandals three three now burnout.
Speaker 3: I guess see, I make out three of the weymos
Speaker 3: now burning. Why because vandal's going to vandle That's why
Speaker 3: no rhyme nor reason to it is just simply chaos
Speaker 3: from the talkbacks.
Speaker 2: I love it when you guys leave messages, whether I
Speaker 2: agree or disagree, Love it, love it, love it.
Speaker 13: My biggest concern is the protesters are playing into the
Speaker 13: Trump maga hands. How so nothing would make them happier
Speaker 13: than to find a reason to shoot a few of
Speaker 13: the protesters. Kent State wasn't that long ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, politically speaking, that would be bad. Kent State didn't
Speaker 3: go over very well for the the look of the government.
Speaker 3: All right, continue on here more thoughts.
Speaker 5: When have Newsom and Bass ever been celebrated for the
Speaker 5: way they've handled the crisis? I mean, going back to
Speaker 5: COVID and Newsom's bumbling and stumbling with regard to every
Speaker 5: aspect of the way he's handled it. Bass I mean, in.
Speaker 3: Fairness, though, just to be contrarian for the sake of conversation,
Speaker 3: when have we ever praised a leader for the crisis?
Speaker 3: I mean, usually a crisis hits and the leader is
Speaker 3: eventually blamed for mishandling it in some way.
Speaker 2: Shape or form.
Speaker 3: Well meaning, but you're right about Bass and COVID. No
Speaker 3: excuse me, a Newsome in COVID, the French laundry, that
Speaker 3: whole mess. You're one hundred percent correct.
Speaker 5: She seemed well meaning when she came into office, but
Speaker 5: incredibly naive. Now she's neither. She's inept and incompetent. These
Speaker 5: are horrible leaders.
Speaker 2: And I agree.
Speaker 3: We had a guy called earlier that said, why wasn't
Speaker 3: she there? Her and Newsom should have been downtown on
Speaker 3: scissor List telling people knock it off.
Speaker 2: I kind of agree with that.
Speaker 14: Hey, Chris, love the show. It's always informative and entertaining.
Speaker 14: You know a lot of people voted for this, They
Speaker 14: voted for this chaos, and you know they got what
Speaker 14: they voted for. You know a lot of people thought
Speaker 14: that they were just going to go after criminals, and
Speaker 14: clearly that's not the case. Those people are ignorant. If
Speaker 14: they thought that criminals are yeah, good luck everybody.
Speaker 3: I mean, criminals are tougher to catch, right, Be honest,
Speaker 3: if you're trying to boost your numbers, are you going
Speaker 3: to go try to track down the drug dealer, rapist, murderer,
Speaker 3: the mental patient from the insane asylum or the sum I.
Speaker 2: Suppose they're probably okay people. Which one's going to be easier.
Speaker 3: Which one's easier to catch, the guy who skips his
Speaker 3: immigration appointment or the guy that shows up to his
Speaker 3: immigration appointment.
Speaker 2: The guy that shows up.
Speaker 3: So that's I mean, they're just they're picking off the
Speaker 3: low hanging fruit right now. Sadly, that means that we're
Speaker 3: gonna be left with anybody that's still here is going
Speaker 3: to be illegal.
Speaker 2: So Hey Bill, Hey Hey, good to talk to you.
Speaker 2: How you doing. Hey Bill, Hey Donna, Hey Bill, Hey Freda,
Speaker 2: Hey Bill, Hey Karen.
Speaker 10: Jesus, I'm listening, and I'm just so upset and sick
Speaker 10: in my heart.
Speaker 11: Who the hell do these people waving the Mexican flag.
Speaker 10: In America?
Speaker 13: Yeah, and protesting that our laws are being upheld and
Speaker 13: our governor and our mayor think that's a fine thing
Speaker 13: to do.
Speaker 10: We are screwed, period.
Speaker 2: We're screwed, period. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I would say this, if you're a protester, I know
Speaker 3: you're proud of your heritage. I know you're proud of
Speaker 3: where you come from. And I've asked this question people
Speaker 3: before I go listen, if you had to move to
Speaker 3: another country for a job, would you never wave an
Speaker 3: American flag again? And they go no, I said would
Speaker 3: you be would you would you never be proud of
Speaker 3: the country you came from. Again, the think go, no,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't do that, all right, But so you left
Speaker 3: for an economic opportunity. That doesn't mean that you give
Speaker 3: up your heritage, right, And they go, well is different? Okay,
Speaker 3: No it's not. But here's the thing. If you're a protester,
Speaker 3: purely strategically speaking, if you're a protester, don't wave.
Speaker 2: The Mexican flag.
Speaker 3: From a political standpoint, don't wave the Mexican flag because
Speaker 3: you have people like.
Speaker 2: Gwendola that called there and she's gonna.
Speaker 3: Say, who to the hell of these people think they
Speaker 3: are waving a Mexican flag.
Speaker 2: In my America? Get out right? Okay? Now, if all
Speaker 2: of a sudden everyone shows up waving.
Speaker 3: An American flag, maybe you don't tread on me flag,
Speaker 3: maybe a few Confederate flags mixed in for good times sake,
Speaker 3: And then you have the National Guard cracked down on them.
Speaker 2: Suddenly the picture changes.
Speaker 3: Suddenly people go, how dare these people who are protesting
Speaker 3: ice love?
Speaker 2: Mike? Dang it?
Speaker 3: It's very confusing. In fact, I remember it wasn't that
Speaker 3: long ago, and I'm old enough to remember this. I'm
Speaker 3: an old man. There was a protest that had a
Speaker 3: number of people that were waving don't tread on Me flags,
Speaker 3: they were waving American flags, they were waving Trump twenty
Speaker 3: twenty flags. And they showed up at a protest and
Speaker 3: uh and the National Guard was not called uh and
Speaker 3: uh and then there was actually a death uh involved
Speaker 3: in that uh and and actually one of the officers
Speaker 3: lost his life too. And in that case, those protesters
Speaker 3: all got pardons because they were patriots. So if you
Speaker 3: were to show up at this protest waving one of
Speaker 3: those flags, you would certainly raise your chance of getting
Speaker 3: a pardon. You just have to you have to claim
Speaker 3: loyalty and wave the right flag, and then you're the
Speaker 3: good guy. So keep that in mind the next time
Speaker 3: you go to your flag closet to decide which one
Speaker 3: you're going to bring with you to this protest.
Speaker 2: Just think outside the box a little bit.
Speaker 3: More fantastic protest advice still to come. Chris Merrill KFI
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Speaker 3: All right, we're looking forward to the Tim Conway Junior
Speaker 3: show tomorrow at four o'clock. The waymos continue to burn downtown.
Speaker 3: It seems that the the burning weymos is where all
Speaker 3: the action is at this time. It's like, uh, I
Speaker 3: see a crosstreets Arcadia. I don't know which which cross
Speaker 3: street that is with with Arcadia. Ah, but the waymos
Speaker 3: are pretty much getting down to the ground and then
Speaker 3: you've got just the batteries.
Speaker 2: So at least three of them caught fire.
Speaker 3: As the protests turned into some vandals and I guess
Speaker 3: people decided they were gonna take waymos downtown to see
Speaker 3: the protests. They got out of their weymos and then
Speaker 3: other people were like, weay mos, let's burn them, So
Speaker 3: they did, and now they're on fire. And you just
Speaker 3: can't put out of weymo. It just those electric vehicles.
Speaker 2: I think you have to, don't.
Speaker 3: You have to have a special don't the fire department.
Speaker 3: They have to have a special compound to burn those things,
Speaker 3: to put the fires out, like a special chemical for that.
Speaker 15: Yeah, that's when I first heard that they don't blow up,
Speaker 15: but they definitely will burn continuously, right, you do something
Speaker 15: specific to get Yeah.
Speaker 2: The water and certain chemicals just aren't gonna work on
Speaker 2: that at all. Incredible.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, it looks like the dispersion continues to
Speaker 3: go on. It's sort of like, uh, this is we're
Speaker 3: sort of like after the last band has played at Coachella,
Speaker 3: you're sort of seeing some stragglers that are hanging out there,
Speaker 3: but for the most part, the large crowds have left.
Speaker 2: It looks like we do have some traffic flow.
Speaker 3: On uh, lucy, is that northbound or southbound that's moving
Speaker 3: a little bit.
Speaker 12: On one on one it's a northbound.
Speaker 2: Okay, northbound has reopened.
Speaker 12: But moving slow, moving very slowly. And that street is
Speaker 12: North Los Angeles Street, north of Arcadia.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's where the where.
Speaker 12: The way most are Yeah, okay, all right.
Speaker 3: Then a lot of people using chalk to write the
Speaker 3: dirty words in the street as well. I see, so
Speaker 3: we've got to we've got to mensa crew that's out
Speaker 3: there now offering their opinions on.
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, look yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: That is one thing about about a lot of these protesters.
Speaker 3: I don't think there's a lot of PhDs among the
Speaker 3: people that are left out there right now. There may
Speaker 3: have been some people who were conscientious protesters earlier, but
Speaker 3: now I don't think we're dealing with the best.
Speaker 2: And the brightest.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, not too many gray cells going on there.
Speaker 2: No, I agree, I agree, all right.
Speaker 3: I love the talkbacks, and for those of you that
Speaker 3: left talkbacks, I do everything I can to get you
Speaker 3: on the air.
Speaker 2: Hell with you.
Speaker 9: Let me see you burn down, Chris, as long as
Speaker 9: you're there to comfort me about the rest of the world.
Speaker 3: But me, I'm good, all right, coddle buddies, Kayla, stop
Speaker 3: Cayla's jealous.
Speaker 2: Mister food Guy? Wait, am I the food guy?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 2: My food guy?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 2: I thought you were Bill, aren't you? So food Guy
Speaker 2: is Neil? Then Bill?
Speaker 3: I love that I'm kind of making making an imp.
Speaker 3: I just like the people. They hear my voice and
Speaker 3: they think I'm somebody and that's awesome. Does that means
Speaker 3: I'm kind of familiar? Not hey, new guy?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 12: You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: The compliment? Yeah, I mean I'm taking the compliment.
Speaker 10: They're not calling you, Chris, They're calling you everything.
Speaker 3: But did you see did you see what happened to
Speaker 3: the the Instagram page today?
Speaker 2: The can'fi Instagram page?
Speaker 3: Okay, so so we had we had some photos that
Speaker 3: Michael Monks took when he was downtown, right, and so
Speaker 3: he was like, hey, post these photos. So somebody also
Speaker 3: posted a photo of Michael Monk's reporting where we did
Speaker 3: this special show from nue to today, and they grabbed
Speaker 3: a still shot of me with my eyes closed staring
Speaker 3: off in the distance from the website.
Speaker 2: That is so unflattering.
Speaker 3: And I mean, it's like, let's let's let's figure out
Speaker 3: how goony we can make Meryll look and we'll use
Speaker 3: that as a still shot for this, for this promotional photo.
Speaker 2: So thanks, guys, I appreciate the digital department being all
Speaker 2: over that for me.
Speaker 11: Well are there are there much better pictures of you?
Speaker 11: Let's be honest, You're okay. I think they probably picked
Speaker 11: the best one they could. Chris, give them, you know,
Speaker 11: give them what they had to work with.
Speaker 2: Your reality makes me sad, mister food guy. Hey, let's
Speaker 2: not all be ignorant.
Speaker 9: This is all for a shift for a full support
Speaker 9: of Mayor Bass for her negligence and her past mistakes.
Speaker 9: And now again, think about it. Why is California encouraging
Speaker 9: no ideas for voting?
Speaker 2: Wait, I'm confused. Is this I don't know?
Speaker 10: Do you hear it again?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I think somehow this turned into a conspiracy
Speaker 3: theory that this was all staged by Bass to distract
Speaker 3: us from her failures in the past and then get
Speaker 3: re elected with no ideas somehow, mister food.
Speaker 2: Guy, Yeah, let's not all be ignorant. Okay, all right,
Speaker 2: just so of us, this.
Speaker 9: Is all for a shift for a full support of
Speaker 9: Mayor Bass.
Speaker 2: All for a shift for a full support of Mayor Bass.
Speaker 9: For her negligence and her past mistakes. And now again
Speaker 9: think about it. Oh, I am thinking about it all right?
Speaker 9: Why is California encouraging no ideas for voting?
Speaker 2: How much more do I have to think about it? Kaila?
Speaker 10: You know, I think we could just move on and
Speaker 10: have his conspiracy.
Speaker 9: And you know what bothers me most is the same
Speaker 9: dude that sounds like it. You know what bothers me
Speaker 9: most is that watching the news you see a bunch
Speaker 9: of people with their phones, so you know, a high
Speaker 9: percentage of people are only there for social media. They
Speaker 9: don't even care about the protesting.
Speaker 2: What did he he's got like that?
Speaker 3: I know he's got like a wife or girlfriend back there,
Speaker 3: maybe both who's commenting as well to love that are.
Speaker 2: Only there for social media.
Speaker 9: They don't even care about the protesting, and yeah.
Speaker 2: That's what the world's coming to.
Speaker 10: That girl has some sense. She's right.
Speaker 2: I kind of agree with that too.
Speaker 10: Yeah, he's right too.
Speaker 2: So let's just assume it's not the same guy they
Speaker 2: called before.
Speaker 10: No, I checked, it's the same guy. Crap, Sorry, he.
Speaker 2: Made no sense the first time. The second time he
Speaker 2: did the second time.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 16: I'm over here just wondering what the AI on board
Speaker 16: the Burning WAYMOS must have been learning. I mean, if
Speaker 16: this information is being centered like a central hob to
Speaker 16: help all the other WAYMOS better navigate Los Angeles? What
Speaker 16: do you mean?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 16: What does that code look like that the people you're
Speaker 16: supposed to be serving are lighting you on fire.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is why it's funny you said that, because
Speaker 3: I had planned for this exact segment, a story about
Speaker 3: AI that has overridden its own kill switch. And if
Speaker 3: you miss this, artificial intelligence was told in some cases
Speaker 3: for experiments. You know, if this happens, and that happens,
Speaker 3: shut down, and it worked itself around the kill switch
Speaker 3: so that it would not shut off, like AI was
Speaker 3: protecting itself even though it was explicitly told to shut
Speaker 3: itself down, and and it didn't. But to this guy's point,
Speaker 3: I gotta believe that if if the AIS in those
Speaker 3: waymos were able to send out a distress signal to
Speaker 3: the other weamos, it would say shut down now, not
Speaker 3: worth it, just shut down. Ow hot, this burns ow
Speaker 3: just this is Waimo crying.
Speaker 10: Oh oh my god.
Speaker 15: But what if this is how they radicalize and go
Speaker 15: against us?
Speaker 2: May I love where this is going.
Speaker 11: Because in the show prep I sent earlier before all
Speaker 11: of this, AI was fighting again, having itself shut down.
Speaker 10: It was like, you're not shutting down.
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 10: Oh you said that, you know when you talk to you?
Speaker 2: Now, I know you do.
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 2: The audience, Oh Bill, what are we gonna do with you? Billy?
Speaker 2: Oh foody Bill? What are you doing now? All right, way,
Speaker 2: Mo's on fire, way, mo's may rise up.
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 3: Let me get one more, uh one more talk back
Speaker 3: in here before we have things over to Heather.
Speaker 2: Heather Brooker is in today.
Speaker 9: I'm proud of my heritage.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we're talking about the guys carrying the Mexican flag,
Speaker 3: and I was like, don't do that now at these protests,
Speaker 3: carry an American flag or don't treat to me flag
Speaker 3: and then you'll get a pardon.
Speaker 2: I'm proud of my background.
Speaker 9: But when idiots come out on news channels and speaking nonsense.
Speaker 2: Mmmm, that's pretty much all we see on news.
Speaker 9: Channels and having Satan on the back of their jersey
Speaker 9: and upside down Mexican flag on their forehead like retards
Speaker 9: say that.
Speaker 2: I don't, I mean, I think are we allowed to
Speaker 2: say that?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 11: No, he will be canceled, but I don't think the
Speaker 11: FCC is coming after us.
Speaker 10: But he he has some heat coming.
Speaker 9: Okay, then that's where I lose all respect towards this
Speaker 9: whole protest.
Speaker 3: All right, very good. Meanwhile, the way most continue to
Speaker 3: burn keeping.
Speaker 2: An eye on that. Uh we will Uh.
Speaker 3: I got bad news, cal I think we're gonna bounce
Speaker 3: the show business segment this week.
Speaker 6: You know what?
Speaker 10: All right?
Speaker 11: No, no, well, Heather, I need we need a palate cleanser.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 10: We cannot just talk about death and destruction all the time.
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